Living Books - The New Kid on the Block

by: Broderbund

Publication date: 1993-09-20

Topics: Living Books

Language: English

This game is based on the 1984 book by Jack Prelutsky (Poem author) and James Stevenson (Illustrator). The version of this Living Book emulated here is Version 1.0. It was re-released as Version 1.1 (after Random House joined with Brøderbund) in 1994 with a speed upgrade (faster fading) and a running man loading cursor.

Keyboard Shortcuts:

R - Switch to Read to Me mode.

P - Switch to Let Me Play mode.

Arrow keys - Skip ahead or go backward pages in poems.

Spacebar - Return to the main menu.

Addeddate: 2018-07-24 06:09:29

Dosbox_drive_d: emularity_win31/win31.zip

Emulator: dosbox

Emulator_ext: zip

Emulator_start: d:\runapp NEWKID.EXE

Identifier: NEWKID

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Year: 1993

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Reviewer: Samorgan - - April 9, 2022
Subject: Very interesting

I remember seeing that book when I was in elementary school, but I never read the book. But even though Jack Prelutsky the book's author might've not put all the poems into this game, it really was funny.

Reviewer: Littleskunkhole - - August 29, 2021
Subject: won't work

WON'T WORK!!

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